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The Essential Product Marketing Framework for SaaS Business Growth

User Pilot

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components.

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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What are the key milestones that go into both, and in different phases of company building — especially pre to post product-market fit?

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5 Things that Kill Startups with Y Combinator

SaaStr

1 Fake product-market fit. You’re company building before product building. So why do founders believe they have market fit, even if they don’t? Raising a series of pre-product market fit. There is a common misconception that product-market fit means you’ve conceptually built what buyers want.

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What I Learned Selling My Company for $130M with Harry Glaser of Periscope Data and ModelBit

SaaStr

They grew like crazy when they found product-market-fit and raised a big Series A and B. Most often, you get a call from a function called corporate development. It’s not a bad relationship to have, but understand that they’re deal executors, not deal creators. There’s some foundational shift or big macro market change.

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Building A $5.6b Company With A Product-Led Flywheel With Postman’s CEO Abhinav Asthana (Pod 528 + Video)

SaaStr

One of the primary problems that Asthana found — both in his own journey, and the journeys of other founders — was that companies presumed that a product-market fit would take the form of a singular event. As companies begin to succeed, they sometimes develop a tunnel vision towards the customers who have brought them their success.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

He also hosts a job board for product professionals and has created a GPT-4 chatbot, Lennybot, that is programmed to answer questions from Lenny’s newsletter and podcast. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar.

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The SaaS Marketing Scorecard - How Does Your Marketing Operation Rank?

Tom Tunguz

Each bucket has a set of disciplines that the team scores. First, it enumerates the important priorities for a marketing team. And second, the scorecard provides a way for a team to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Product Marketing is the starting point for marketing.